Today’s digital-age consumer accesses online video at a time and place convenient for them on a screen that they choose. This Masters Series session will look at the opportunities and threats this new reality places on marketers from both a creative and economic standpoint. Attendees will learn:
1) What the key ingredients are that create arresting content that gets shared virally;
2) the differences between traditional broadcast television content and what works over the Internet; and
3) what the most effective free and paid distribution channels are. Lastly, they understand how marketers can leverage their intellectual property to create new revenue streams.
Objectives:
• Discover the latest third-party research on various screen usage, online portals, and video consumption habits of consumers.
• Specific examples of successful video content that has been used for promotional purposes and why they have worked.
3. Meet Today’s Panel
Jeff Campbell
President
UFC Fit
DR Expert, Marketer
Stacy Durand
President
Media Design Group
Agency
Barry Evans
COO/GM
Covenant Communications
Marketer, Investor
8. We now live in a world where the
consumer is able to watch video content
largely at a time and place on a device of
their choosing versus at a time and place
dictated by the broadcaster on what was
previously dominated by television. You
and all advertisers and have been
involved in content marketing.
How has this shift changed the game?
Game Changer?
9. In the case of DRTV advertising, obviously you are no
longer relegated to standard lengths such as two
minute commercials or 28 and a half minute paid
programs. Beyond the length of the messages, what are
some of the other differences that you see between TV
ad content and online content?
What do you see as the key to your teasers? Do you
need a teaser per product? What works? What
doesn’t work? In Vegas we heard that people watch
40% of a teaser on average - no matter how long the
teaser is - do you think that’s true?
Teaser Keys?
10. A lot of marketers may think, “We’ll just create a
viral video.” Do you believe this is something that
can be created intentionally by design, or do you
think it has to occur organically?
Any thoughts on how one might create content
that gets shared virally? Do you believe this is
something that can be created intentionally or do
you think it has to occur organically?
Virality?
11. Let’s turn now to content in the form of intellectual property
that you, the marketer, actually get paid for by the consumer.
With so much free content available on the Internet, how can
you generate revenue for your content?
For many years, intellectual property and its perceived value
was marketed via physical media, first as tapes, then as CDs or
DVDs. We now live in a world where it is possible for the
consumer to instantly access content. What are the risks and
rewards of this paradigm shift as you see it?
With piracy being so pervasive, how can a marketer protect
their content?
IP Risks?
12. What can you tell us about split
testing? How do you analyze your
teaser drop off rates? How do you
measure success?
What have you successful (and not)
used YouTube for? Amazon? iTunes?
Split Tests? Marketplaces?
13. What do you see as the most effective
free and paid distribution channels? Do
you use distributors? Wholesalers?
How do you best achieve what I call “net
new business?” In other words, how can
marketers use their existing IP to generate
new revenue streams?
Distribution Channels? Net New?
14. Have you experimented with
subscriptions, credit systems or other
interesting monetization methods that
have worked or not worked?
Have you bundled products into different
offerings than you use to do with DVDs
now that you have digital and infinitely
configurable options?
Monetization?
15. What marketing platforms do you use
to sell your content? Traditional print?
Catalog? PPC? Infomercials? Are
there any vendors that specialize in
providing the marketing experience for
this sector?
Marketing Automation?
16. What do you think about remarketing?
Beyond video are you selling any other
digital assets such as audio, music, spoken
word, books, PDFs, software?
How do you know when to offer rental vs.
sale vs. subscription for any product?
Remarketing? Digital Assets?
17. Can you talk about the role of the
creative, marketing, agency,
distribution, sales
teams/people/firms? Who should do
what? Should you do it all?
Roles?
18. Which second screens would you say are
important? iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Mac,
Windows, Linux, Chromecast, Roku, Specific smart
TVs, ?
Depending on the sector (i.e. fitness vs. education
vs. sports), we see that about 5% to 75% of
customers will download content and watch it
offline. Please talk about your thoughts about the
importance of apps (i.e. downloading and
controlling content) compared to streaming.
Second Screens? Downloaded?
19. How important are apps
(protected/downloaded content),
analytics (data about who, what, etc),
APIs (e.g. integration to your shopping
cart), etc. to you today vs. what do you
think will be important in the future?
Apps Important?
Hello everyone and welcome to our panel. I’m confident you’re going to enjoy this session. This is a great opportunity to hear from some of the worlds leading experts on a variety of subjects. Personally I’m a tech guy at heart. I’ve built, run, and sold a couple of tech companies. I’ve selected the video on demand space as my next frontier. Initially because I had a lot of technical training content that I wanted to share with the world. I wanted to maintain my own brand (i.e. I didn’t want to put it into a marketplace) and I wanted to set my own price, do my own marketing, etc. InteliVideo is a video on demand platform for those who want to monetize and protect their content. We do the delivery (through apps, streaming, etc) and protect our client’s content. I see the value we provide to our clients every day.
We’re here today to talk about the new demands of online video. I thought this would be a good opportunity for each of us to give our background as it relates to this session and then tell us what this (i.e. new demands on online video) means to you, to your business, to your future, to the world. Whoever is next to me will go first.
I’m going to moderate this session. My goal is simple - to make sure we have a lively debate, great discussion, to make sure everyone gets an opportunity to speak their peace. Anyone can chime in on any of the questions I’m going to ask - of course, please be respectful to your fellow panel mates.
Some quick stats – online viewers in the US is up to 195M – growth is slowing / done
Tablets and smartphones are everywhere
Most of internet traffic is video now
YouTube is the biggest – tough to find what you’re really looking for
AOL is bigger than I thought
Facebook is #3
Others surprised me
Now that we can watch anytime, anywhere, on any device vs. watching TV programmed by someone else – has this shift changed the DR game?
DR was previously limited to a couple of formats, but those rules are gone now. What’s the ideal teaser length? What works best?
Talk about bad teasers – like video outtakes…too long…etc.
Can you design something that goes viral or does it just happen?
IP is a huge subject for some and a non-issue for others. What do you put out as free vs. paid for content? How/where do you draw the line? Would you say the risks have increased or decreased now? How do you protect your content?
Let’s talk about split testings, teaser drop off rates, etc. – how do you measure these and what’s important to you?
What/how do you use YouTube, Amazon, iTunes, etc?
What are the most effective distribution / wholesale channels?
How do you generate “net new business” rather than just migrate customers over from DVDs?
Now that you can offer subscriptions, rentals, credit systems, etc. what other methods of monetization have you experimented with and what’s worked/not worked?
Have you experimented with bundling products in different creative ways now that you don’t have to create a golden master for each variation of a product?
What marketing platforms do you use?
Do you still distribute traditional print, catalogs?
Do you pay for PPC?
DRTV?
Who specializes in this sector from a marketing perspective?
Remarketing thoughts?
Beyond video what other digital assets are you selling?
What are your thoughts about rentals vs sales vs subscriptions.
Let’s talk about the roles of all of the different people you work with on creating, selling, marketing your content now.
What devices do you think are key?
Do you think people want to be able to download content? If so, when?
Why are (or aren’t) apps important to your customers?